Assessing the economy-wide effects of quantitative easing

Economic Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 564, 2012, Pages

  Kapetanios, George ^b   Mumtaz, Haroon ^b   Stevens, Ibrahim ^a   Theodoridis, Konstantinos ^b  

^a GIZ Office Rwanda   (Rwanda)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC IMPACT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; INFLATION; INTEREST RATE; MACROECONOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84868118563     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02555.x     Document Type: Article

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